Wonderful! I have been able to trace my ancestry back to the Highlands of Scotlands, the Lord of the Isles (Somerled), and through him to Norse Jarls & kings of Mann, Northumbria, & Norway; including Harald Fairhair (my 31st great-grandfather). I would love to sail on it! Thank you for sharing this.
Nike Mozack; no - the longest viking ship ever found, was 37,4 m long - had 39 rows for the rowers (78 of them) and a total crew of 100 men. It was found 1996/97 in Roskilde, Denmark. It is called Roskilde6, as there has been many more boats found there. The viking ship museum of Roskilde is going to build an exact copy in a few years - when their new museum building is finished. It will cost 30 mill Danish kroner. (4 mill €)
Beautiful .Power and grace manifest in movement. I hope to find out that Fairhair himself was as truly wrought, now you ve inspired some historical curiosity. I am an American living in Arizona. However, my paternal grandmother s maiden name was Zilke. My eldest son is named Odin. Thanks for sharing this video.
I've heard that they made both huge and small ships using the same technique. They where quickly built, and if they needed a ship to go in shallow water, they built them short and wide so that they wouldn't go as deep, and that they could carry it. But if they needed the ship to go over seas, they built them long and thinner (compared to the length) so they would go deeper and not so easily tip over in case of storms.
I saw 3 replicas sail into Boston years back, the Gaia, Saga Siglar and a third one. They were pretty amazing but not as big as this one. I hoped to see some replicas in Oslo on my visits there, but there were none.
100 Warriors manned a logship of this size... some sagas tell of ships that required 200-250 Warriors for the crew. I really don't see a problem with portage with manpower of such numbers. It wouldn't have been easy... but very doable.
Yes they have Kasbian BUT they NEWER EVER had a ship that looked like that! Its way to fat to be a real Longboat. Its a upscaled osebergship witch was short and fat. BUT the wikings never ever build an up scaled oseberg ship. They build long narrow ships for war. and short fat ships for trading. The very construction and how they build this ship has nothing to do with how the wikings build ships. It's build like people build small 2.2 to 5 meter long roingboats from around 1850. With constructions teqnikes that are 800 years ahead of what the vikings did. and im not talking about the use of crains. This ship in its core isen't a viking ship. A wiking ship was flexeble very flexeble this one isen't its mutch more stiff. This ship has stiffening parts of wood. That a wiking area wikingship did not have. yes it looks big and strong but its not a wikingship. its a look alike at bedst.
Actually it looks like an extended Gokstad ship which measured some 23 meters (78feet). The Gokstad ship could be used for both trading and raiding and was typical of the ocean going ships of 9th and 10th centuries. A replica of it sailed from Norway to New York in the 1890s fair. The Oseberg ship was really a fijord or river barge and not really meant for open ocean raiding.
Well done Video!! History lesson was great!! I come from Germany and i`m a big fan of the Viking history. I wrote some mythologik SOngs about the Vikings and all of them in my own language. If you like to hear some of that stuff take a look at my Page or ma other Page Laikay der Spielende and the you`ll see and hear what i mean. have a nice day!!
+richard salvator The boat was finished. It traveled from Norway to Dublin around Schottland a few years ago and was there for about a year on an exhibition. This summer it goes from Norway via the Shetlands, the Faroes and Iceland into the great lakes between USA and Canada.
Beautiful long boat . Hilsen fra Wexford (viksfjord)
As a born and raised "Norseman", I say; well done guys, you make me proud to be a Norwegian! :-)
Absolutely beautiful! I'm sure Fairhair would have been proud!!!!
The Lecturing was GOOD!
Was fortunate enough to see her last summer @ Mystic Harbor Ct 👍🏼🍻
My family is from the island of Bokn very near to Karmoy, very proud about that, and this ship ofcorse. beautiful.
This was so well done, a real treat!
Wonderful!
I have been able to trace my ancestry back to the Highlands of Scotlands, the Lord of the Isles (Somerled), and through him to Norse Jarls & kings of Mann, Northumbria, & Norway; including Harald Fairhair (my 31st great-grandfather).
I would love to sail on it! Thank you for sharing this.
In Roskilde, Denmark museum they have the remains of a Vikingship of 36 meters !
+Jørgen Nielsen He means a Sea Worthy workable replica.
I have seen it in Dublin 2007 . lovely longboat also . Hilsen fra Irland .
Nike Mozack; no - the longest viking ship ever found, was 37,4 m long - had 39 rows for the rowers (78 of them) and a total crew of 100 men. It was found 1996/97 in Roskilde, Denmark. It is called Roskilde6, as there has been many more boats found there. The viking ship museum of Roskilde is going to build an exact copy in a few years - when their new museum building is finished. It will cost 30 mill Danish kroner. (4 mill €)
Beautiful .Power and grace manifest in movement.
I hope to find out that Fairhair himself was as truly wrought, now you ve inspired some
historical curiosity.
I am an American living in Arizona. However, my paternal grandmother s maiden name was Zilke.
My eldest son is named Odin.
Thanks for sharing this video.
What a fantastic video! Great job!
I've heard that they made both huge and small ships using the same technique. They where quickly built, and if they needed a ship to go in shallow water, they built them short and wide so that they wouldn't go as deep, and that they could carry it. But if they needed the ship to go over seas, they built them long and thinner (compared to the length) so they would go deeper and not so easily tip over in case of storms.
Just a lovely, lovely ship!!
Orion
Fabulous, thanks.
How much people can it hold?
I saw 3 replicas sail into Boston years back, the Gaia, Saga Siglar and a third one. They were pretty amazing but not as big as this one. I hoped to see some replicas in Oslo on my visits there, but there were none.
Do you work with the ship? Like building or testing it?
May I ask what the soundtrack used was? :D
It does go well with the footage, but now I want to know what songs are too XD
Up to the Highlands by Royalty Free Music Crew
I think the first toll booths for waterways were up near the Black Sea and at Constaninople.
Either that, or the first Suez Canal dug back in Pharonic (sp??) Egypt. Someone would have had to pay the costs of operating that somehow...
What song is this? It's very familiar.
A Viking longship with huge construction cranes in the background is kind of a mind fuck.
Amazing!
you should make a poster out of that pic. det hadde blitt nydelig. og snakk om kontrast. setter en femmer på Draken jeg da.
wonder why they never show the Ironage diesel engine.........
How does it fare in big water? (open ocean)
Beautifully, although the original mast turned out not to be quite strong enough this summer.
its a beauty
Just curious, has anyone here read "the Long Ships", aka "Red Orm"?
Sure did. I read it back in the Mid 60s when I was in Junior High School.
100 Warriors manned a logship of this size... some sagas tell of ships that required 200-250 Warriors for the crew. I really don't see a problem with portage with manpower of such numbers. It wouldn't have been easy... but very doable.
Oh how badly I want to be on that ship...
sorry but it looks way to wide. It looks more like a oversized viking age merchant wessel than a actually wiking longship made for war.
The vikings had many different types of ship.
Yes they have Kasbian BUT they NEWER EVER had a ship that looked like that! Its way to fat to be a real Longboat.
Its a upscaled osebergship witch was short and fat. BUT the wikings never ever build an up scaled oseberg ship. They build long narrow ships for war. and short fat ships for trading.
The very construction and how they build this ship has nothing to do with how the wikings build ships.
It's build like people build small 2.2 to 5 meter long roingboats from around 1850. With constructions teqnikes that are 800 years ahead of what the vikings did. and im not talking about the use of crains.
This ship in its core isen't a viking ship. A wiking ship was flexeble very flexeble this one isen't its mutch more stiff. This ship has stiffening parts of wood. That a wiking area wikingship did not have.
yes it looks big and strong but its not a wikingship. its a look alike at bedst.
Actually it looks like an extended Gokstad ship which measured some 23 meters (78feet). The Gokstad ship could be used for both trading and raiding and was typical of the ocean going ships of 9th and 10th centuries. A replica of it sailed from Norway to New York in the 1890s fair. The Oseberg ship was really a fijord or river barge and not really meant for open ocean raiding.
Og så har den en motor
I wish I could have longboat..
Impressive leap in technology. I assume it could reach 15 knots with no problems?
Easily, even 20!!!
tank oo
класс!
Kult skip, ja!
Well done Video!! History lesson was great!! I come from Germany and i`m a big fan of the Viking history. I wrote some mythologik SOngs about the Vikings and all of them in my own language. If you like to hear some of that stuff take a look at my Page or ma other Page Laikay der Spielende and the you`ll see and hear what i mean. have a nice day!!
A fine ship to be sure, too bad it was never finished.
+richard salvator The boat was finished. It traveled from Norway to Dublin around Schottland a few years ago and was there for about a year on an exhibition. This summer it goes from Norway via the Shetlands, the Faroes and Iceland into the great lakes between USA and Canada.